Just asking. What would happen to a phone working under very weak (most of the time, one bar to none) mobile signal strength. Where I stay has exceptionally weak signal strength. I noticed that one of my i9505 shuts itself down intermittently at home. Doesnt happen elseswhere. My other i9505 has a dying wifi. I have just moved to this new home. Never had such problems before this.
What are your thoughts?
You'd probably see higher than 'normal' (that's relative tho, obviously) battery drain. I certainly notice this when I use my phone at home (weak signal mostly) Vs when I'm out & about (much better signal). Never known of this sort of thing to cause shutdowns though, unless there's some kind of firmware or hardware issue which gets triggered by weak mobile signal (again, never heard of such a thing) ?
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Hi all, I have WM6 almost for week now and first I was very pleased by it as the SD card issue seems to be fixed, but I started noticing a weird phone behavior. For example, Sometimes I'm not able to turn off the flight mode, sometimes my phone stops showing signal and I have to soft-reset but the most annoying thing is, that the signal reception seems really weak. I'm not able to make a call from many places where I could before. Just entering a building makes the indicator to drop half down. Does anybody have the same experience?
For me, the signal recepetion is the same than Windows Mobile 5.
No changing
Hello guys,
I just got my X1 (Generic_UK) few days ago, and i was shocked by the poor reception or i might say the dropped calls by the phone.
In fact each conversation the phone was managed to dropp the call by itself after 2 -3 minutes maximum, so i had to call the other party all over again.
I updated the firmware to R2AA010 yesterday and switch the network to GSM only, and that didn't fix this problem, and i also used my friend's card (different carrier and end up with same result)
Any one can help me with this issue ? if I'd never fix this problem , I'd definetly sell it out.
Thanks.
probably won't help, but my phone shows exactly the same behaviour.
i am on a 1800 GSM network.
an update of the radio rom to the newest version that is available here on the forum did not help.
TBH this sounds like a phone fault... mine works flawlessly and now that I have 010 ROM its even better... are you in a very remote area? if not perhaps its a fault and you might need to take it back?
The HTC Touch HD seems to be affected by exactly the same problem. (link)
Strange
Well, I'm running the Voda X1i but flashed to Generic UK R2A_10. I have had nothing but perfect calls, only 1 call dropped but I don't think it was my fault because my signal was max.
It's true the signal is often low, I keep it next to my iPhone which is also on voda and comparatively the iPhone has better signal, but the sound quality in my iphone is appauling and in comparison, when I make a call on my Xperia it's like the person is standing next to me.
I have put up with the BS from my iPhone for too long, as well as the horrendous echo that anyone that calls me suffers from and invariably complains about and refuses to call me.
If you're in a good signal area and you're still getting problems on R2A_10 i'd recommend returning it for a replacement.
X1 definitely has serious reception problem.
I am not taking about the number of bars but off and on signal are comepltely gone and it will start searching for a network.
I have tested this by putting the phone on the table and by observing the signals bars over a long period of time. Often I have noticed full signal bars and many time there are not signals at all.
Service is weak in my area but none of my pervious mobiles have shown such a poor reception.
zeemalik said:
X1 definitely has serious reception problem.
I am not taking about the number of bars but off and on signal are comepltely gone and it will start searching for a network.
I have tested this by putting the phone on the table and by observing the signals bars over a long period of time. Often I have noticed full signal bars and many time there are not signals at all.
Service is weak in my area but none of my pervious mobiles have shown such a poor reception.
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same here, ive had major reception issues compared to other handsets on same network
I have never had any problems with reception or dropped calls.
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I have been running android on my hd2 for a while now and i love it. I wish the screen was more sensitive and the calls were louder. dsp manager never works for me. but more importantly i noticed a huge problem.
Randomly when i hold the phone on power it on from sleep mode. my reception goes to X with no bars at all. Then a few seconds later full service. This is it my normal spots i use my phone while my vibrant shows full service. Is this a known issue or is there something i should be doing.
same problem here.. and i have 3g signal only few times, in area with good signal.. do you have any workaround for that? is that because of ppp? i didn`t have this kind of problem before, now on every build..
At home, we have a Cel-Fi signal booster since T-Mobile reception isn't very good indoors. With the signal booster, there is full reception pretty much everywhere in the house. However, for some reason, my Nexus 4 running stock 4.4.2 keeps cutting out to no signal as shown in the picture (the phone is in the same spot in the house for the entire duration shown). This behavior happens with the 97, 98, and 33/98 radios. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this? Everyone else in the home has no problems with the booster and I've even swapped out my SIM card but that hasn't fixed the issue. Thanks
Hi all,
I recently bought this phone, and I'm very satisfied.
However I found a "problem".
The strength of my network signal is very unstable.
Without moving the smarthpone too much, It varies a lot.
Here there is an example, i didn't move the phone and I didn't change the way I handle it (or at least not too much): Unfurtnately I can't post outside links...
I started monitoring the signal, and it was very high. Then it started to go down.
When it was near the zero, where is the green arrow, I made a phone call: the signal went up again.
So, seems, that while the antenna is in idle the signal is very unstable. But when I make a phone call, the signal strenght goes up.
What scares me is that the signal strength varies too much while not on call. Just see the spike before the arrow...
Someone has experienced this too?
Is this normal?
Thank you very much
In the US I was using a Note 2 for a couple of years on the Verizon CDMA network. I must say the Note 2 on that network has been pretty reliable and I live in a rural mountainous area. I got my Zuk and I could not use Verizon plan with it, so I got a pay as you go plan with At&T GSM to demo it, because I really wanted a dual sim phone. The service is not as good, I work at many locations where I have to go in basements, and even in the city areas where I have full 4 bar service, I cant keep signal with the Zuk, but with the Note 2 it is no problem. In my home basement I can keep service somewhat, but sometimes I even will miss calls. I wish I had a spare AT&T phone that is sold in the states to compare it with for service.
So sadly I think my trial with my beloved Zuk is coming to an end and it is going to end up on Swappa before long.
I got your point: maybe the ZUk Z1 doesn't have the best reception ever.
However, apart this, I'm experiencing a very strange behavior.
Almost motionless, the strength of the signal varies too much.
But, maybe even more strange are these snapshot: the green arrows indicates when i started a phone call. (here too, the phone almost motionless)
h ttp://i.imgur.com/fSI1dED.jpg
h ttp://i.imgur.com/OOmfrM9.jpg
h ttp://i.imgur.com/sUYKY8N.jpg
h ttp://i.imgur.com/1JjOR9t.jpg
h ttp://i.imgur.com/f2NuSYv.jpg
h ttp://i.imgur.com/nwfyTJX.jpg
In particular, here can be seen the spike that worries me so much: h ttp://i.imgur.com/KZRPndR.jpg
Possible that i'm the only one experiencing this problem?
Of course, where the signal is stronger I don't have these problems.
So, I think there is a bug in the managing of the antenna
Sorry for the broken links, otherwise I didn't can post them.
Nopaste said:
I got your point: maybe the ZUk Z1 doesn't have the best reception ever.
However, apart this, I'm experiencing a very strange behavior.
Almost motionless, the strength of the signal varies too much.
But, maybe even more strange are these snapshot: the green arrows indicates when i started a phone call. (here too, the phone almost motionless)
http://i.imgur.com/fSI1dED.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OOmfrM9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sUYKY8N.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1JjOR9t.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/f2NuSYv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nwfyTJX.jpg
In particular, here can be seen the spike that worries me so much: http://i.imgur.com/KZRPndR.jpg
Possible that i'm the only one experiencing this problem?
Of course, where the signal is stronger I don't have these problems.
So, I think there is a bug in the managing of the antenna
Sorry for the broken links, otherwise I didn't can post them.
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Let me look and see? I can see the bars in the notification area are not for real.
How did you bring up the advance strength meter, I would like to give that a try?
It's an application that I downloaded from the store.
In italian It is called "Info Segnale Rete"
Nopaste said:
Hi all,
I recently bought this phone, and I'm very satisfied.
However I found a "problem".
The strength of my network signal is very unstable.
Without moving the smarthpone too much, It varies a lot.
Here there is an example, i didn't move the phone and I didn't change the way I handle it (or at least not too much): Unfurtnately I can't post outside links...
I started monitoring the signal, and it was very high. Then it started to go down.
When it was near the zero, where is the green arrow, I made a phone call: the signal went up again.
So, seems, that while the antenna is in idle the signal is very unstable. But when I make a phone call, the signal strenght goes up.
What scares me is that the signal strength varies too much while not on call. Just see the spike before the arrow...
Someone has experienced this too?
Is this normal?
Thank you very much
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Me too Bro.. Recently bought this phone and now I am having very poor network reception for Airtel telecom operator in India. Places where i used to have good network coverage with my previous phone aren't any longer a good reception area when using Zuk Z1.. When checked in GSMArena, i saw that zuk doesn't have that much bands supported for 4g/LTE. However, that shouldn't mess up with the 3G/2G signal receptions, right.? Any idea that updating to /CM 13 will help.?? Or any other option to upgrade the radio firmware so that network reception will be better.? Pls lemme know if anyone has some clue on this.. Thanks in advance..